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On GitHub someone has updated the plugin to work with PHP 7.2, which I tested as well and worked with PHP 8

https://github.com/jbrodiev/baw-login-logout-menu

So in conclustion, wp-cli doesn’t have a way to support ssh key auth, it would need to be configured on the server the command is executing on.

I found my answer here at the very bottom of the thread:

https://github.com/wp-cli/wp-cli/issues/2754

I had to setup a ~/.ssh/config to specify the IdentityFile and other connection information.

~/.ssh/config:

Host server
    HostName 1.1.1.1
    User user
    Port 22
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/key

I could then run the command like so:

wp --ssh=server/var/www/html plugin update --all

Now the command can run without prompting for the remote servers users password.

I have already setup the ssh key authentication and tested connecting from server1 to server2 and server2 to server1. Both servers are set with ssh to listen on port 22. I was wondering if wp-cli has an option to use the ssh key like standard ssh would.

Standard SSH:
ssh -i ~/.ssh/key user@server:22

wp-cli option?:
wp –ssh=-i ~/.ssh/key:user@server:22/var/www/html plugin update –all
wp –ssh=-i ~/.ssh/key:user@server:22/var/www/html theme update –all
(obviously this format failed, also using dummy data)

This typically indicates that the usermeta capabilities are broken in the database.